On May 27, 2026, Governor Tim Walz signed legislation extending the Minnesota pass-through entity tax (PTET) through December 31, 2027. Prior to this extension, and as contemplated in our previous alert, Minnesota's PTET law…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Taxation
The DOL's Proposed Safe Harbor and What It Means for Asset Managers, Advisers, and Plan Sponsors - On March 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule titled "Fiduciary Duties in Selecting Designated…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
After legislative leaders struck a deal with the governor in the days before the end of session, the Minnesota Legislature completed its work on time this past Sunday evening meeting its constitutional deadline just before the…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics, Health, Taxation
Employers that rely on contractors, franchisees, or staffing agencies may soon get some additional guidance about when those arrangements could make them "joint employers" under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Family and…
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/ Administrative Law, Franchise Law, Labor & Employment Law
Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, I have a question about the duty to report professional misconduct. I have learned that a lawyer (Bill) in our firm accidentally copied a lawyer from another firm with an email intended for a client,…
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/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services, Professional Malpractice
In 1987, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) imposed the so-called "death penalty" on Southern Methodist University, canceling SMU's football season, all because boosters had the audacity to pay players. Today,…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Education Law
This April in America brought a confluence of two monoliths of popular culture: sports and effective income tax planning. In the "big four" professional leagues, the MLB was in full swing, the NHL and NBA playoff races were…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Taxation
Online privacy litigation continues to surge—and professional sports is one of its most visible battlegrounds. In the past two years, the NBA fought a data-sharing lawsuit, the Chicago Cubs faced biometric privacy claims over…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
On April 10, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a split ruling in VE Opening LLC v. Sprinklr, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-01736-ADA, that underscores a critical lesson for patent owners and technology…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, I have been asked to advise and represent a witness who has been subpoenaed to testify in a civil trial in which her employer is being sued for breach of contract by another business entity who was a party…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Law Practice Products & Services
On April 3, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its FY 2027 Agency Performance Plan and FY 2025 Agency Performance Report, providing a roadmap of their enforcement priorities and compliance…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On April 13, 2026, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a precedential decision in Haire-Cochran v. 24 Restore, Inc., reversing a district court's dismissal of claims against a restoration company and clarifying an important…
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/ Civil Procedure, Construction Law, Insurance, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential
On March 17, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an Interpretative Release related to how federal securities laws will be applied to many cryptocurrency assets and related transactions. This release…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
On February 26, 2026, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a proposed new rule for determining whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The proposed rule would…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
On March 19, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) motion for a stay pending appeal of the district court's judgment vacating the agency's overhauled Hart-Scott-Rodino…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions
